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Pete Buttigieg: “The US is trying to achieve an open strait of Hormuz, which…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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'Heartbreak': Pete Buttigieg reacts to deaths of two U.S. troops in Iran, calls on Trump to end war

Published | Video Starts at 07:07

And the really frustrating thing is any way you cut it, it feels like a best case scenario is worse than the way things were before this war began. Remember, one of the things that The US is trying to achieve an open strait of Hormuz, which was already the case before. And meanwhile, we have seen one Ayatollah Khamenei replaced by another Ayatollah Khamenei. No regime change either. So there's no great option here. (07:07–07:16)

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Asserts that the US aims to maintain an open strait of Hormuz, a condition that previously existed.

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